1. 09 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  2. 04 2月, 2008 3 次提交
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      virtio: reset function · 6e5aa7ef
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      A reset function solves three problems:
      
      1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a
         guest driver without rebooting the guest.
      
      2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset,
         we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and
      
      3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers.
      
      So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove
      feature bits is via reset.
      
      We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues:
      the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its
      remove function.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      6e5aa7ef
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      virtio: explicit enable_cb/disable_cb rather than callback return. · 18445c4d
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      It seems that virtio_net wants to disable callbacks (interrupts) before
      calling netif_rx_schedule(), so we can't use the return value to do so.
      
      Rename "restart" to "cb_enable" and introduce "cb_disable" hook: callback
      now returns void, rather than a boolean.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      18445c4d
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      virtio: simplify config mechanism. · a586d4f6
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
      seems overkill.  We now simply define a structure which represents the
      layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
      at the end.
      
      The main driver-visible changes:
      1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
      2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      a586d4f6
  3. 19 11月, 2007 1 次提交
  4. 12 11月, 2007 1 次提交
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      virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizes · 42b36cc0
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be
      aligned to an N-byte boundary.  But as Anthony Liguori points out, the
      free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power
      of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest).
      
      So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page
      boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two
      pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      42b36cc0
  5. 25 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  6. 23 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Lguest support for Virtio · 19f1537b
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      This makes lguest able to use the virtio devices.
      
      We change the device descriptor page from a simple array to a variable
      length "type, config_len, status, config data..." format, and
      implement virtio_config_ops to read from that config data.
      
      We use the virtio ring implementation for an efficient Guest <-> Host
      virtqueue mechanism, and the new LHCALL_NOTIFY hypercall to kick the
      host when it changes.
      
      We also use LHCALL_NOTIFY on kernel addresses for very very early
      console output.  We could have another hypercall, but this hack works
      quite well.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      19f1537b